The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-08-11
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.


Of ono from each subordinate union was
chosen to attend Pope Leo's golden jubilee
celebration Bishop Kean, OF Richmond,
delivered on eloquent address and re-
ton. The report OF the committee on
resolutions, as adopted, is quite lengthy:
Special reference ID made to Ireland, and
the work done by her sons in the cause OF
temperance is commended. Tho organize
recommended, and the celebration in 1883
OF the semi centennial anniversary Of the
signing OF Father Mathews pledge is
specially urged. The election Of officers
resulted In the following: President, Rev.
Thomas J; Consly, Of Worcester, Mass.
Notre Dame college, Ind; treasurer. Rev.
Philip ]. Corigan, OF Ftchburg, Mass.
secretary Philip A. Nolan, of Philadelphia.
Rev. NJ. E. Murphy, of saltwater, Mimi,
was elected provincial vice-president OF the
will be held in Boston in August, 1883.
A synopsis OF business transacted in the
general land Office at Washington during
the week ending July 80 showed the total
number Of acres of state and territorial
grants still pending to be 6, ,3i5 9lS and 3O6
private claims are still undisrOsed OF. Ap-
plications for public lands within supposed
pending involving 81 1873 acres; wagon
road selections pending involving 2S9, ,3A
acres; number OF land grant railroads, ~,
involving 14S,O24 $40 acres; land grant
wagon roads z, involving 3.276,5s3 acres;
acres patented to July 80, l,7S3,33O; acres
6s,6O6, 405 Contested cases were disposed
Of during the week ending July 80, leaving
1865 cases undisposed OF. Final homestead
entries pending July 30, leaving 4, 1886 cases
undispOsed OF. Final homestead entries
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lent entry cases pending $3.50. OF the sew
eral appropriations made for the public
land service for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1855, some $4,000 are available.
Dairymen at Elgin, Ills, have been
forced to succomb for the season. There
has been very little rain there since the 1st
of May. Pastures since then have been
shrinking, until now only the raw. coarse
trees are stripped Of leaves, and many
farmers are dependent entirely upon feed
ing from the rack. The supply Of milk
shows an average decrease of 90 per cent.
This is below the winter rate of supply, as
the heat acts injuriously upon cattle. One
farmer offers to furnish his farm, one Of the
best in the valley, stock, etc., and $1,000
cash, to some responsible man to run it and
pay expenses till March, 1858.
The glass manufacturing establishments OF
Mckee Il Co., and King, Son Il Co., Pitts
burg, Pa, were damaged by fire on the 3lst
to the amount Of S15O,O0O; insurance $s5,-
600. At 5 O'Clock the same evening heavy
thunder storm, accompanied by wind with
q velocity Of IS miles an hour, passed over
the city flooding streets and doing. great
damage to trees, fences and small buildings.
on several roads delayed. The signal scr.
vice records for July show that the past
month has been the hottest in fifteen years,
and that more rain has fallen than in any
previous July for many years.
A special from Paducah, KY, says that
just preceding the earthquake Monday
night, farm Of 800 acres, planted in corn
and tobacco, sank from four to six feet, and
that the basin began at once to fill with
water. There were two colOred families
living on the place who did not feel the
settling Of the earth, but were awakened
cabins. They got on to high ground safely.
Trigg county is about sixty-fiye miles from
the s.sunken lands" that went down sixty
to seventy feet during the New Madrid
convulsion about sixty years ago.
Late dispatches from British Columbia
state that news from the northern salmon
fisheries is encouraging. The Skeena river
pack will be the heaviest known. Fifty-two
thousand cases are already packed. The
Alert bay pack is good. Reports from
Astoria. Ore, states that this season there
is . shortage Of between 75,OoO and 5000
cases The pack this year is estimated at
number OF vessels were loaded with salmen.
Only one has received q cargo SO far this
season.
Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm
4 I'D &ho NnA hon he fo .
report OF their condition at the close Of
business Aug. l. The Information embodied
in the report Just called for is expected to
be particularly valuable as showing how the
banks are prepared to meet the approach
ing demands for funds to move the crops.
All banks that failed to send In reports
| under the last call within the time specified
by law were fined, and the fines have been
collected and paid into the treasury.
Lieb Bros. & Co., Of San Francisco, com.
plain to the interstate commission that the
Texas & Pacific and the Southern Pacific
railroad companies charge $2,27 per hun
dred upon freight to Houston or Galveston
Tex, while to other points in Texas much
nearer to San Francisco they charge "a.
Complainants are consequently compelled
/ to ship to Houston or Galveston, there te
be shipped back to destination. They ash
an investigation and relief.
The demand for freight cars has increased
SO rapidly within the past week that ths
railroads centering in Pittsburg, Pa, ars
taxed beyond their capacity. The Pennsyl
vania company has requisitiens for 1,OOl
more cars west of Pittsburg than they car
furnish; now that the coke strike is practi
cally settled this demand will be largely in
along the line Of the Baltimore u Ohio rail
road and its branches.
The last business day Of July was Z
critical one in Wall Street, and stock
touched lower prices than have beer
known since the break after the rise II
june. Two failures occurred. Minneapolis
Il st. Louis dropped 81 per cent, Reading
from SO to AZ, Vanderbilt's an averagl
decline Of 8 per cent just before the clos,
of the day there was slight recovery anc
the market was less unsettled.
The historic Lutheran church, the corner
stone Of which was laid in 1743, and stand
ing a mile from Strouchsburg, Berks Co.
Pa, was struck by lightning Aug. 2, ant
burned. The edifice with organ and 8. y
library was worth $1,000. It was land
mark among the Lutheran churches II
America and among the very first erectet
in this country.
San Francisco. California, has beel
indulging in the eastern luxury Of q whea
corner, and . close estimate as to iosse
inflicted on the bull wheat clique by tn
collapse of the corner make them between
&5,OO0,OGO and $1,000, 900, in addition Il
which the clique is still holding and payinl
storage on enormous quantities Of wheat.
A statement prepared at the treasury de
partment shows that during the month o
July there was o net decrease OF $6.6dS ~
in the cash in the treasury and net in
crease OF $4,O47, ,l33 in the circulation. Tn
decrease in the cash was mainly In gold Ger
tificates. The decrease in the national banl
notes amounted to -, ,5i3,03l.
i The imports Of dry goods at the port o
New York last week amounted to 8, 59S, ,339
of which Sl,s52,Sl3 were entered for con
sumption and $745, ,496 were warehoused
The amount withdrawn from warehouse
for the week was 1924 ,167, making the tota
} amount thrown on the market q, ,4SO,Ol0
Tho July rains produced the most ex
tensive freshet at Augusta, Ga, known il
% years. The Savannah registered 33 fee
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